Category : Local News

MASERU — Professor Adelani Ogunrinade, the former vice-chancellor of the National University of Lesotho (NUL), has died. The Nigerian academic died at Medi-Clinic in Bloemfontein...

MASERU — Lesotho Defence Force (LDF) soldiers co-operated with the enemy during the attacks at Makoanyane military base and the State House on April 22...

MASERU — Nine people died in road accidents during the Easter holiday, police figures show. Police spokesperson Masupha Masupha said there were 61 reported road...

MASERU — The president of the Law Society of Lesotho Advocate Zwelakhe Mda wants incompetent High Court judges to be “named and shamed”.  Mda said...

MASERU — Five men aged between 30 and 40 were killed in a fire exchange with the police in Mafeteng last week.  Another man was...

MASERU — Professor Adelani Ogunrinade, who died last Saturday, was born 56 years ago in Nigeria. He graduated from the University of Ibadan with a...

MASERU — A 25-year-old man was on Tuesday ordered to undergo an HIV test after he was convicted of abducting and raping a 16-year-old girl...

MASERU — Former Lesotho Highlands Development Authority (LHDA) accountant Peggy Thakeli yesterday asked the Court of Appeal to set aside the conviction imposed on her...

MASERU — Opposition parties claim the government admitted at a Monday meeting that it had botched the implementation of the controversial Mixed Member Proportional (MMP)...

MASERU — Three soldiers were on Tuesday locked behind prison bars after the High Court found them guilty of killing a police woman during the...

MASERU — Professor Kopano Makoa is considered the Basotho National Party (BNP) leader-in-waiting. A strong faction in the party believes he is the right man...

MASERU — An outbreak of measles has hit schools in Maseru. Two students from Motimposo Primary School reportedly died of measles after the disease hit...

MASERU — Six former members of the executive committee of the Lesotho People’s Congress (LPC) re-joined the ruling Lesotho Congress for Democracy (LCD) party yesterday,...

MASERU — A former MP who served as the only opposition legislator between 1993 and 1998 is demanding a government pension equivalent to that of...

MASERU — A bread van belonging to Astoria Bakery was on Sunday morning hijacked by five armed men in Sefikeng. Police said the armed robbers...

MASERU — Public Eye columnist, Tukula Makhakhe, who is facing two counts of armed robbery, was on Monday granted M1 400 bail by the High...

MASERU — Two men appeared in the Maseru Magistrate’s Court on Tuesday on a charge of armed robbery. Monyane Molibeli, 31, and Phafa Rafats’e, 25,...

MASERU — Four men from Majaheng Mapoteng in Berea were on Monday found guilty of brutally killing Sekoche Mphaka over suspected stock theft. High Court...

MASERU — A columnist for Public Eye newspaper, Tukula Makhakhe, appeared in the Maseru Magistrate’s Court yesterday facing charges of armed robbery. Makhakhe, 34, who...

MASERU — “I want to know when the leader, Mr Metsing Lekhanya, will step down and give others a chance to lead.” Those words could...

MASERU — The Basotho National Party (BNP) annual conference over the weekend was supposed to be Major General Metsing Lekhanya’s Waterloo. It was here, at...

MASERU – A soldier who was in the guardroom at the gate of the State House has described how the assailants who attacked the house...

MASERU — Lawyers involved in a money lending court battle on Monday agreed to temporarily suspend the hearing of a case in which 1 273...

MASERU — Macaefa Billy’s court battles are far from over. Billy was last May acquitted by the High Court on a charge of sedition. High...

MASERU — Students at the National Health Training College in Maseru are still in shock after one of their colleagues was allegedly fatally stabbed by...

MASERU — Telecommunications giant, Econet-Telecom Lesotho (ETL), says it has moved its fixed line services to a new network called the Next Generation Network in...

MASERU — Police in Mohale’s Hoek are investigating a police officer who was caught red-handed with three bags of dagga at his home on Sunday...

MASERU — Communications minister and government spokesperson Mothetjoa Metsing was yesterday under pressure to accept the SADC envoy Sir Ketumile Masire and legal experts’ reports...

BLOEMFONTEIN — A Mosotho student at the Central University of Technology (CUT) is battling for his life at the Universitas Private Hospital in Bloemfontein after...

MASERU — A Mohale man is suing the Lesotho Highlands Development Authority (LHDA) for failing to pay his full claim for land that he lost...